NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

As you encourage content curation activities for your staff, you may also want to remind them of techniques for being efficient and staying focused: Manage Your Attention, Not Just Your Time: Don't just create a to-do list, lay it out on daily and weekly schedules, breaking down key tasks of the project into chunks.

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Content Exercise Technique Journal 62

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

The big challenge with training is the challenge of transfer - after people go through a training - do they actually put the knowledge and skills into practice? Everyone attended a 90-minute presentation by Eric Schwartzman on what social media is and why we should pay attention. People were extremely engaged. How did it go?

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 24, 2017

When we had seven people, we barely needed an organizational chart. Running a small, unorthodox nonprofit, I’d had bad experiences with consultants who didn’t seem to give us their full attention. When we started this project, I expected about 30% of the museum’s jobs to change a little bit, and about 20% to change a lot.

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Org Learning Structure Museum 20

Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

I'd managed for ages by then, and I'd certainly put in place change management. But if you want other people's projects canned so your great projects can continue, then we have gotten nowhere. It's a pernicious culture of seeing rank-and-file staff as costs, not assets, nevermind as people. People make museums.

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